HR and payroll teams that carry the administrative load

Recruiters, payroll and benefits specialists, HR generalists and systems administrators, employed under local law and managed alongside your HR lead.

Why HR departments staff these functions offshore

HR teams absorb administrative volume that scales with headcount while the department itself rarely does.

Payroll cycles, benefits enrollment, onboarding paperwork, employment verification and compliance reporting arrive on a fixed calendar whether or not the team has grown. The usual response is to stretch the people already there, which is how errors and turnover start. Connext builds a dedicated HR support team that works inside your HRIS and payroll systems, under your policies, with a Connext operations lead accountable for performance day to day. You keep direction over the work and every employment decision.

40-60%

Lower cost than equivalent U.S. salaries

98%

Client retention across 10 years of operation

21

Average days to fill a position

37%

Of companies report their longest-open role sat vacant three months or more

Connext Unfilled Role Report 2026

The roles we staff

Hired against your requirements, trained on your process, and part of your HR function rather than a separate service desk.

Payroll specialists

Pay runs, retroactive adjustments, off-cycle payments, terminations and the exceptions automation flags but does not resolve.

Benefits specialists

Open enrollment support, carrier reconciliation, employee questions and the records work that follows every life event.

Recruiters and sourcing support

Screening, scheduling, assessments and interview coordination against your hiring process, with the offer decision staying yours.

HR generalists

Onboarding, employment verification, personnel records, policy administration and the day-to-day queue employees send to HR.

HRIS and systems administrators

System configuration, data integrity, reporting and the cleanup work that keeps an HRIS trustworthy.

Performance and engagement support

Review cycle administration, training coordination, upskilling logistics and recognition programs.

Payroll: where the software stops and a specialist starts

Automation runs the calculations. It cannot own the outcome when something breaks.

Payroll software processes recurring wage calculations, tax updates and anomaly detection faster than any person can. What it does not do is interpret an ambiguous policy, weigh a judgment call, or take responsibility for a resolution. Retroactive adjustments, disputed commissions, off-cycle runs and terminations are where a payroll cycle goes wrong, and all four need a person. The structure most finance and HR leaders land on assigns each side the part of the job it does well.

Finance is the slowest function to adopt AI

56% of finance leaders reported using AI tools in 2026, up from 31% in 2024. Even so, finance and accounting had the lowest deployment rate of any major function at 40%, against 54% in operations, 61% in sales and 78% in customer service (State of AI in Finance 2026).

Payroll data is the data attackers want

A review of 1,297 publicly known ransomware and breach incidents found HR-related data, including payroll records and personally identifiable information, in 81.7% of them. IBM puts the average breach at $4.44 million globally.

A flagged exception is not a resolved one

A platform that raises an exception without closing it moves the work back to a team that may not have the capacity to catch it before payday.

Capacity that grows with headcount

Specialists verify results, investigate exceptions and own the resolution, with the team scaling as volume rises rather than bottlenecking on one internal person.

What stays with your HR leadership

An offshore HR team handles administration and coordination. Every decision about a person remains yours.

Employment decisions

Hiring, promotion, compensation and termination are approved by your leadership. The offshore team prepares the file and executes what you approve.

Employee relations and discipline

Investigations, grievances, performance management conversations and anything involving a protected characteristic stay in-house.

Legal and regulatory exposure

Employment law in your jurisdiction, litigation and regulatory filings belong to your counsel and your HR leadership.

Policy itself

Your team writes the policy. The offshore team applies it consistently and flags the cases that do not fit.

Who manages the team after it is placed

The rate card prices what a provider promises at signing. It never prices what happens if the provider goes quiet afterwards.

This is the question worth asking any staffing partner before you sign, because the cost of getting it wrong lands somewhere finance never modeled: a second vendor search, a function pulled back in-house, or a placement that drifts because nobody owned keeping it on track. Connext pairs every client team with an operations lead who owns performance day to day, on a review cadence set by your priorities rather than a generic schedule.

72%

of procurement leaders now price total cost of ownership, not per-order price

Gartner. The cheapest quote on paper kept turning into the most expensive relationship to manage.

81%

of B2B buyers end up dissatisfied with the provider they choose

Forrester also found 86% of B2B purchases stall somewhere in the process. Starting the search over is not free.

6-9

months of salary is what replacing an employee costs

SHRM's benchmark. An unmanaged placement drifts toward the same outcome as a disengaged hire, wherever it sits.

Ask who answers after signing.

If an evaluation cannot get a straight answer on who manages the account once the contract is live, that is the finding.

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The Connext difference

By hiring and retaining the top 1% of global talent Connext build teams that drive innovation, maintain high standards, and deliver exceptional results.

Easilyscalable

We use AI and industry knowledge to find candidates fast, building your team in just 21 days on average.

Multi-countryoperations

With entities worldwide, we access the top 1% of talent and guide you to the best location or build multi-site teams.

Experience

We have over ten years of successful operations and industry experts on our team to ensure your success.

Datasecurity

Connext provides employee equipment, secure global facilities, and never stores your data offshore.

Frequently asked questions

How does Connext's recruiting process work?
Connext handles sourcing, screening, and first-round interviews on your behalf using AI-enabled tools and a database of over 10,000 candidates. The process is tailored to your role requirements with an average time to hire of just 21 days.
What equipment does Connext provide to team members?
Connext provides employee equipment and secure global facilities, and never stores your data offshore.
What does a Connext Service Delivery Manager do?
Every client gets a dedicated Operations Manager who runs weekly reviews and manages performance proactively, so your offshore team is co-managed rather than left on its own.
Is Connext certified for data security compliance?
Yes. Connext operates under a SOC 2 Type II attestation covering all four delivery centers, handles protected health information under signed Business Associate Agreements for HIPAA, follows GDPR-ready processes, and is registered with the Philippines' National Privacy Commission. Information security management and card payment workflows follow controls aligned with the ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards.
What does Connext handle as an Employer of Record?
You manage performance, we manage the paperwork. Connext is the legal employer in-country and takes care of contracts, payroll, benefits and local compliance.
What does the Contractor Transitions service involve?
If you are already working with independent contractors, Connext transitions them into a compliant, fully supported offshore team without losing the people you already trust.
Where are Connext's offices located?
Connext operates offices in the Philippines, Colombia, Mexico and India.
Do I need to already have staff to get started with Connext?
No. Most clients start from zero: Connext recruits, hires and onboards the team for you, and you keep control of how they work. If you already have contractors or staff in place, we transition them instead so you do not lose the people you trust.
What security measures are in place at Connext facilities?
Teams work from more than 50,000 sq ft of secure, purpose-built workspace with 24/7 managed IT support, secure VPN access and full technology integration.
What kind of support is available after my team is up and running?
Your Operations Manager stays with the account, running weekly performance reviews and retention management that keeps annual attrition around 20% versus a 50% industry standard.
Teams  we can help you build
Every client receives the full suite of Connext outsourcing services, enabling you to easily build and manage your offshore team

Our case studies

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They Were Already Offshoring. It Just Wasn't Working

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